Moderator: Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh
Panelist/s:
Phoebe Koundouri, University of Cambridge
Max Koch, University of Lund
Maša Ocvirk, Global Europe Program, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars
Description:
This Conversation on Europe will look at the economics of climate response. Growth or degrowth, clean investment or circular consumption, modernization or renovation: what are the European routes toward sustainability? From a Transatlantic perspective, what are the best economic practices in climate response?
About the Panelists:
Phoebe Koundouri: She holds an MPhil and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and holds academic positions at the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of Reading, and the London School of Economics. She has published 18 books and more than 600 scientific papers, including publications in Nature, the Lancet, and top-ranked economics, econometrics, and sustainability science journals. She co-edited several prestigious academic journals, including Nature: Climate Action and Environmental and Resources Economics. She organized numerous international scientific conferences, supervised more than 30 PhD students, and gave keynote speeches and public lectures across the world. In 2019, she was elected President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) the biggest scientific association in the field, with more than 1500 member institutions, from more than 75 countries and she is now chairing the World Council of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists Associations (WCERE). In 2022 she received the prestigious European Research Council Synergy Grant, and in 2023, she was awarded the Academy of Athens Award for Scientific Excellence.
Max Koch is Professor of Social Policy and Sustainability at Lund University, Sweden. He currently leads the interdisciplinary projects Postgrowth Welfare Systems and Economic Elites in the Climate Change Transformation: Practices, justifications and regulations of unsustainable lifestyles in Sweden. He has published widely on degrowth and sustainable welfare, mainly with focus on European societies.
Maša Ocvirk is the Program Coordinator for the Global Europe Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Originally from Slovenia, she has previously served as the Representative of the Slovenian National Assembly to the European Parliament in Brussels, among other things working on the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2021. Before that she worked as an advisor for the Committees on EU Affairs and Foreign Policy at the Slovenian National Assembly. Next to fostering transatlantic relations, her research interests include the EU as a Global Actor, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, EU reform, EU enlargement, and relations with the Western Balkans.
